Systems and Methods for Calculating Pricing Adjustments for Capital Equipment Based on Gamma Factors

1. A system for calculating fractional capital equipment costs comprising: a database containing contract data; and at least one processor in operable communication with the database to: provide a graphical user interface for receiving an instruction to perform a customer deal evaluation; retrieve the contract data from the database; process the contract data to identify one or more factors corresponding to a potential customer of a service provided by a telecommunication service provider, the service requiring use of capital equipment, wherein the capital equipment comprises infrastructure needed for the telecommunication service provider to provide the service; calculate a fraction of capital equipment cost value corresponding to the capital equipment based on the factors; execute a customer deal evaluation model to generate a pricing scheme corresponding to the service and the customer, based on a total cost of acquiring capital value and the fraction of capital equipment cost value; and automatically cause the pricing scheme to be displayed in the graphical user interface.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein executing a customer deal evaluation model based on the total cost of acquiring capital value and the fraction of capital equipment cost value comprises: multiplying the total cost of acquiring capital value by the fraction of capital equipment cost value to generate a result; and calculating at least one customer evaluation metric, adjusted according to the result.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the metric is selected from at least one of a net present value metric, an internal rate of return metric, a payback metric, or an EBITDA less CapEx metric.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more factors is at least one of a contract term length, a useful equipment life value, a price compression rate, and a capital discount rate.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein at least one processor is further configured to: receive customer data uniquely identifying the customer and the contract data from a user-interface.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more factors includes a price compression percentage and wherein calculating the fraction of capital equipment cost value comprises accessing a price compression table stored in the database corresponding to the price compression percentage to determine the fraction of capital equipment cost value.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more factors includes a contract term, a useful equipment life value, a price compression rate, and a capital discount rate and wherein the fraction of capital equipment cost value is calculated using the following equation: γ = ∑ t = o T - 1 ⁢ ⁢ r t ∑ t = 0 U - 1 ⁢ ⁢ r t = 1 - r T 1 - r 1 - r U 1 - r = 1 - r T 1 - r U wherein γ is the fraction of capital equipment, T is the contract term, U is the useful equipment life value, c is the price compression rate, d is the capital discount rate, and r is equal to (1−c)/(1+d).

8. A method for calculating fractional capital equipment costs comprising: providing a graphical user interface for receiving an instruction to perform a customer deal evaluation; retrieving contract data from a database; processing, by at least one processor, customer data corresponding to a potential customer of a service provided by a telecommunication service provider to identify one or more factors, the service requiring use of capital equipment, wherein the capital equipment comprises infrastructure needed for the telecommunication service provider to provide the service and the customer data includes at least the contract data; calculating a fraction of capital equipment cost value corresponding to the capital equipment based on the factors; executing a customer deal evaluation model to generate a pricing scheme corresponding to the service and the customer, based on a total cost of acquiring capital value and the fraction of capital equipment cost value; and automatically causing the pricing scheme to be displayed in the graphical user interface.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein executing a customer deal evaluation model based on the total cost of acquiring capital value and the fraction of capital equipment cost value comprises: multiplying the total cost of acquiring capital value by the fraction of capital equipment cost value to generate a result; and calculating at least one customer evaluation metric, adjusted according to the result.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the metric is selected from at least one of a net present value metric, an internal rate of return metric, a payback metric, or an EBITDA less CapEx metric.

11. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more factors is at least one of a contract term length, a useful equipment life value, a price compression rate, and a capital discount rate.

12. The method of claim 8 , further comprising: receiving customer data uniquely identifying the customer and the contract data from a user-interface generated by the at least one processor.

13. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more factors includes a price compression percentage and wherein calculating the fraction of capital equipment cost value comprises accessing a price compression table, stored in a database, corresponding to the price compression percentage to determine the fraction of capital equipment cost value.

14. The method of claim 8 , wherein the one or more factors includes a contract term, a useful equipment life value, a price compression rate, and a capital discount rate and wherein the fraction of capital equipment cost value is calculated using the following equation: γ = ∑ t = o T - 1 ⁢ ⁢ r t ∑ t = o U - 1 ⁢ ⁢ r t = 1 - r T 1 - r 1 - r U 1 - r = 1 - r T 1 - r U wherein γ is the fraction of capital equipment, T is the contract term, U is the useful equipment life value, c is the price compression rate, d is the capital discount rate, and r is equal to (1−c)/(1+d).

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for calculating fractional capital equipment costs, the instructions, when executed by at least one executable by a processor, causing the at least one processor to perform a method, the method comprising: providing a graphical user interface for receiving an instruction to perform a customer deal evaluation; retrieving from a database customer data corresponding to a potential customer of a service from a telecommunication service provider, the service requiring use of capital equipment, wherein the capital equipment comprises infrastructure needed for the telecommunication service provider to provide the service and the customer data includes at least contract data; processing the customer data to identify one or more factors; calculating a fraction of capital equipment cost value corresponding to the capital equipment based on the factors; executing a customer deal evaluation model to generate a pricing scheme corresponding to the service and the customer based on a total cost of acquiring capital value and the fraction of capital equipment cost value; and automatically causing the pricing scheme to be displayed in the graphical user interface.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein executing a customer deal evaluation model based on the total cost of acquiring capital value and the fraction of capital equipment cost value comprises: multiplying the total cost of acquiring capital value by the fraction of capital equipment cost value to generate a result; and calculating at least one customer evaluation metric, adjusted according to the result.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the metric is selected from at least one of a net present value metric, an internal rate of return metric, a payback metric, or an EBITDA less CapEx metric.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more factors is at least one of a contract term length, a useful equipment life value, a price compression rate, and a capital discount rate.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein obtaining the customer data comprises: accessing the customer data from a user-interface.

20. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more factors includes a price compression percentage and wherein calculating the fraction of capital equipment cost value comprises accessing a price compression table, maintained in a database, corresponding to the price compression percentage to determine the fraction of capital equipment cost value.

21. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15 , wherein the one or more factors includes a contract term, a useful equipment life value, a price compression rate, and a capital discount rate and wherein the fraction of capital equipment cost value is calculated using the following equation: γ = ∑ t = o T - 1 ⁢ ⁢ r t ∑ t = o U - 1 ⁢ ⁢ r t = 1 - r T 1 - r 1 - r U 1 - r = 1 - r T 1 - r U wherein γ is the fraction of capital equipment, T is the contract term, U is the useful equipment life value, c is the price compression rate, d is the capital discount rate, and r is equal to (1−c)/(1+d).